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As late as the 1970s, most villages in the area could boast more than one brewery-owned public house.

But the trend of pub closures in towns and villages has accelerated in recent decades, due to factors like alcohol sales by supermarkets and off-licences being granted to corner shops and convenience stores for those wishing to drink at home rather than venture out to a nearby hostelry.

At one stage, Brigg could boast two breweries.

A view from the County Bridge in Brigg, with the Sergeant's brewery seen on the left

A.M. & E. Sergeant’s occupied the west side of the old River Ancholme from 1852, using Castlethorpe spring water to prepare the local brew.

The much older White Hart Inn, built originally from Derbyshire stone, was used as a convenient outlet on nearby Bridge Street.

Sergeant’s Dolphin Ale took first prize at the Brewers Exhibition held in London during the 1920s, but the whole business was much later absorbed by Hewitt Brothers of Grimsby.